Butterow Methodist Church

Butterow Methodist Church, Butterow Hill

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1171674
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Butterow Methodist Church
Statutory Address:
Butterow Methodist Church, Butterow Hill

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1171674
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Butterow Methodist Church
Statutory Address 1:
Butterow Methodist Church, Butterow Hill

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Butterow Methodist Church, Butterow Hill

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
Rodborough
National Grid Reference:
SO 85598 04094

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 August 2024 to correct the date of construction and reformat the text to current standards.

SO 8504 SE
11/111

RODBOROUGH
BUTTEROW HILL (west side)
Butterow Methodist Church

GV
II
Former Primitive Methodist chapel, now Methodist church. 1856. Limestone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular.

South front: simple parapet gabled end with plain coping. Central doorway with C20 glazed doors and C20 gabled porch. Flanking round arched sashes with glazing bars. Central oval panel in gable with raised border: 'PRIMITIVE METHODIST / CHAPEL / 1856 / ZION'. Clock below. East side: four unequally-set round arched sashes with glazing bars; coursed rubble plinth. North end: central round arched sash window with glazing bars in parapet gabled end.

Simple interior.

Forms part of group of buildings near The Pike (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO8559804094

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
131986
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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